California Biographies
Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo.
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm
JUDGE HENRY N. EVANS. A practical, skilful and well-to-do agriculturist of Los Alamos, owning
and occupying a well-managed and highly productive ranch, Judge Henry N. Evans is a man of
influence in his community, and has there filled various official positions with ability and
fidelity. He was born December 8, 1869, in Alabama, which was likewise the birthplace of his
father and mother, Henry and Ann (Higginbotham) Evans. His parents came to California in
1870, and his father, who was a Methodist preacher, died in 1875, and his wife in 1872.
Educated in the public schools, Henry N. Evans began life for himself as a teacher on the Buell
ranch, and for fourteen consecutive years taught in Santa Barbara County, being well liked and
quite popular as an educator. About seven years ago, in 1909, Mr. Evans purchased his home
farm of twenty-seven acres, and has it now all under cultivation, raising beans, barley and
cattle, and is meeting with unquestioned success in his operations. In fact, the Judge has been
so fortunate in his work on his own ranch that he now rents a large tract of near-by land, 1,500
acres, which he also devotes to the growing of barley, beans and cattle.
Judge Evans married, June 10, 1891, in Lompoc, Miss Annie A. Callis, who was born in
Carpinteria, California, a daughter of the late Thomas C. Callis, a California pioneer, and one
of the very earliest merchants of Montecito. Five children have blessed the union of Judge and
Mrs. Evans, as follows: Reginald S., a clerk in the Lompoc Valley Bank; Gerald, foreman on the
home ranch; Wallace, range boss of the ranch; Howard F., assisting his father on the farm; and
Dorothy I., who assists her father as bookkeeper for the ranch.
Although Judge Evans is a stanch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, he has
ever been too busy to take an active part in political affairs, but for the last ten years he has
rendered efficient service as justice of the peace, an office that was forced upon him by his
constituents. He has also served for twelve years as a member, and the clerk of the board of
school trustees, and has been deputy assessor several terms. He belongs to the Methodist
Church and for many years was a leader in church work.